Missing KDEprint printer choices?
Hello Family, I normally can use KDEprint's setup tool, (A) Add printer/class (B) Click next on the popup screen and then see scores of printer makes and models to choose from. I see nothing in my FreeBSD-6.2 offerings. I use KDEprint on all my Unix based OS's and KDEprint is fully poplulated when I get to this point. I felt I have loaded just about everything under /usr/ports/print and still see no printers to choose from. Can anyone shed some pointers my way? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyspan P/N= USA-19QW (not recognized?)
Hello Family, Just plugged in my Keyspan 19QW usb-2-serial adapter and not even the USB link light activated... Is this a kernel recompile issue in regards to activating some param? Gotta get into a console server right now and need to reboot my laptop to hurry and get in... Laptop is triple-booted... BRB -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyspan P/N= USA-19QW (not recognized?)
At Fri, 15 Jun 2007 it looks like Wojciech Puchar composed: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Just plugged in my Keyspan 19QW usb-2-serial adapter and not even the USB link light activated... nothing in dmesg? Yes, actually ugen0 but what worried me is that when I plug in this device, it always lit-up (lights come on) to indicate the device is getting a link/power light. I had to reboot my laptop into linux to get access, the link/power light came on immediately in both my Keyspan device and the the link light in the USB cable itself. It appears that the USB port did not even give power to the device, kind of felt like a lower level hardware issue if you get my drift... -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laser printer - which one? (Brother HL-2070N)
At Thu, 24 May 2007 it looks like Warren Block composed: On Thu, 24 May 2007, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: might be a bit off here, but I'm sure some of you have experiences with laser printers. I would like to buy a (relatively) cheap laser printer with the following requirements: - quality (I mean here, that I want to use it for a long time, thus it should be of good quality and be robust) - has such a toner, *that can be refilled cheaply* - prints in good quality, speed and noise is not that important - should work under FreeBSD / Linux, not just under Windows As for the price, I'm thinking of 100 000 HUF (about 400 EUR) as *very* maximum. The price is important, but the first point is more important at all...I color laser printer would be cool if this amount of money is sufficient for this, but a BW one is ok, too. My suggestion would be a used HP LaserJet 4050, preferably with a JetDirect network interface. I've used them as network printers for FreeBSD with excellent results, they're built well and cheap to run. Have not tried toner refilling, though. You could probably buy a color laser with mostly-empty starter toner at this price, but replacing supplies could cost as much or more than the printer. I just purchased a Brother-2070N that works fine. $130.oo from Costco with a 1500 page toner cartdridge. It has a network interface built in too. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11037212whse=BCtopnav=browse= Shit... it's $40.oo cheaper this week than it was two weeks ago when I bought mine! -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A good quiet power supply? (bought one...)
At Mon, 30 Apr 2007 it looks like Chuck Swiger composed: Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a fanless power-supply and then realized I needed some input. It's possible to run systems which don't use enough power to need fans, but you have to design the system accordingly using either underclocked components or low-power/laptop-oriented CPU and video. Most desktop systems are going to run too hot without some form of active cooling. Also, you probably should start by opening the case and seeing what is making all of the noise: it might be a CPU fan or even a chipset fan, and not the PSU fan, which is causing most of the racket. For the PSU, good vendors include Antec, Foxconn, and Enermax...look for a unit which has a single smart (thermally controlled) 120mm fan, as the larger fan can run at a lower speed and still move enough air. Thanks everyone for the help here, I've learned alot as a result. After alot of reading reviews I took a drive at lunch and purchased the following powersupply: http://www.xoxide.com/seasonic-s12-430w-psu.html I will of view the interior of the case again with the above mentioned clues in mind and see what can be unplugged. It's a simple single disk box, serving nothing, just in the bedroom. Thanks Family :) -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A good quiet power supply? (Mad Dog supply?)
At Mon, 30 Apr 2007 it looks like Howard Goldstein composed: Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a fanless power-supply and then realized I needed some input. If you have a circuit city nearby you might want to see if they have the mad dog supply on clearance. It does have the large 120mm fan but to me it's inaudible, it was about $49 when they were still carrying it as an in-stock item. Hmmm, just got back from buying one... Will swing by a CC to see anyway for future reference. I have about eight(8) boxes up at home so one could use some quiet ;) -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A good quiet power supply?
Hello Family, Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a fanless power-supply and then realized I needed some input. http://www.xoxide.com/fanlesspsu.html TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported? (oh no!)
At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Jan Henrik Sylvester composed: The only usb wlan driver in FreeBSD is ural (Ralink RT2500USB). Also, ndis (Windows driver wrapper) does not work for usb devices. Thus, you are out of luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Open_Source_Wireless_Drivers (Some people seem to be working on porting rum and zyd from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, but that won't help you, either.) Oh... that is very disappointing. I have my laptop triple booted with Windows-2000, Knoppix-5.1.1 and FreeBSD-6.2 and was going to show off FreeBSD's network speed as a comparison test to show my coworkers that Linux and 2000 is not the only option. :( -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported? (thank-you)
At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri composed: On 1/28/07, Bill-Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Jan Henrik Sylvester composed: The only usb wlan driver in FreeBSD is ural (Ralink RT2500USB). Also, ndis (Windows driver wrapper) does not work for usb devices. Thus, you are out of luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Open_Source_Wireless_Drivers (Some people seem to be working on porting rum and zyd from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, but that won't help you, either.) Oh... that is very disappointing. I have my laptop triple booted with Windows-2000, Knoppix-5.1.1 and FreeBSD-6.2 and was going to show off FreeBSD's network speed as a comparison test to show my coworkers that Linux and 2000 is not the only option. :( -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Check http://vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/ My dear friend, thank you very much :) -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?
At Wed, 17 Jan 2007 it looks like Garrett Cooper composed: On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files... (question) (A) Would that mean to copy the files from both install disks into one common directory then export the directory via NFS? Yes. That's the purpose of NFS installs. Directory heirachy (from the release's directory), needs to be maintained though. So the base directory would be similar to what's seen in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386, where you'd have to create a directory name that matches the release, then download all the items to your subdirectory on the NFS share under the release directory that you want to install (i.e. 6.2-RELEASE/base, etc). Many people would just download their files from the FTP site and copy it to their NFS share as I described above. That's what the handbook means AFAIK. Thanks Garrett, Now, just to confirm one thing... On my NFS server I now have an exported directory called: /mnt/6.2-RELEASE Inside of that directory I have the full contents (not an iso image) of the first install disk of FreeBSD-6.2, so far so good? Now, for the remaining data on disk-2, which has a duplicate file like disk-1 has called: cdrom.inf and a duplicate directory like disk-1 called: packages I figured I can rsync the second CD's contents of /packages into the main tree but what about the conflicting two files both named cdrom.inf ? Will the installer be intuitive enough to not prompt for second CD when looking for files that would normally reside there? The reason I say that is that if one chooses to install, let's say, mtools or the linux software out of emulators on the main menu you put in the 2nd disk, it intuitively tells you that the packages are not on disk-2, but disk-1. So I'm thinking there is some residual metadata that not only has the package name but the CD disk location appended to in. Similar to the disk shuffling one had to to before when ejecting and injecting multiple CD's for previous installs on lets say 6.0 or 6.1 Thanks again Garrett (B) Mount each ISO in a loopback then export the two loopbacked ISO's under each other in an exported parent directory? TIA Not possible with the basic FreeBSD installer disk, but maybe it's possible with the FreeBSIE LiveCD, or a custom CD if you build in the relevant stuff for a rescue shell; you'd still need to get at the iso somehow though, and you'd have to make sure that ramdisk (that's the Linux name, but I forgot the FreeBSD name right now?) support in order to mount an ISO image compiled into your kernel. snip -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?
Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files... (question) (A) Would that mean to copy the files from both install disks into one common directory then export the directory via NFS? (B) Mount each ISO in a loopback then export the two loopbacked ISO's under each other in an exported parent directory? TIA # 2.13.6.1 Before Installing via NFS The NFS installation is fairly straight-forward. Simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files you want onto an NFS server and then point the NFS media selection at it. If this server supports only “privileged port” (as is generally the default for Sun workstations), you will need to set the option NFS Secure in the Options menu before installation can proceed. If you have a poor quality Ethernet card which suffers from very slow transfer rates, you may also wish to toggle the NFS Slow flag. In order for NFS installation to work, the server must support subdir mounts, for example, if your FreeBSD 6.1 distribution directory lives on: ziggy:/usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, then ziggy will have to allow the direct mounting of /usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, not just /usr or /usr/archive/stuff. In FreeBSD's /etc/exports file, this is controlled by the -alldirs options. Other NFS servers may have different conventions. If you are getting “permission denied” messages from the server, then it is likely that you do not have this enabled properly. # It seems to be written for the time when there was only a single ISO cd. -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 it looks like Nikolas Britton composed: On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it. Like I said..when Fbsd 2.5 was light _years_ ahead of Linux..sometime after that, focus was lost. USL v. BSDi happened. I'm not that informed historically and was glad to get this little tidbit a while ago when tracking down the history of Unix/Linux... http://wiliweld.com/history.jpg -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i finally got wireless working
At Sun, 17 Dec 2006 it looks like Jonathan Horne composed: well, a day well spent, i finally sat down to get the intel 2200 wireless on my ibm t42 working. i have sucessfully configured it to attach to my WPA encrypted wifi on bootup. everything is otherwise working to my satisfaction. now, my questions are: 1) how can i set up to access more than just my wireless network? can this be done at the command line, without rewriting my if_iwi line(s) in rc.conf? 2) can wireless configuration be set to automatically attach to preferred networks first, then possibly any available open if preferred not available? thanks, jonathan Good work Jonathan, As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you got past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to hear. I actually save success stories like yours to help me out with wireless issues. I can only speak for myself but I'd love to hear how ya did it. -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dd mini-iso image to USB pendrive?
Hello Family, I'm trying to get my server to boot off my Sandisk Cruzer 1-gig pen drive with an ISO image dd'd to the pendrive. It fails and the same ISO image will boot off the USB CDROM with no issues. Is there any specific howto on doing this? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clock running too fast
At Mon, 30 Oct 2006 it looks like Thierry Lacoste composed: Thank you. I tried TSC, ACPI-fast and i8254 but I still have the same problem. I have a 64-bit box that for some reason started running fast... real fast and for the sake of simplicity, just have a cronjob run ntpdate to various timeservers till I get this figured out. I imagined something wrong with the motherboard so the cronjob entries looked very appealing :) On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:46, Chuck Swiger wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: On one of my servers running 6.1-RELEASE-p10 I cannot keep the clok synchronized using ntpd. AFAICS this is certainly because the clock is running way too fast (about one second per minute). After I run ntpdate then ntpd the clock is drifting and /var/db/ntp.drift contains 0.00. Is there a way to slow down the system clock (something like tickadj under some linux distributions) ? Take a look at sysctl kern.timecounter, and choose another clock from the list of choices (by setting kern.timecounter.hardware to something else in the list of choices). If you are using TSC now, especially on a dual-CPU system, try using ACPI-safe or i8254 instead. If you are using the ACPI timecounter, try looking for a BIOS update for your hardware; perhaps that might fix the bogus clock. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Schoolcraft * System Engineer ~ The loser isn't the one who finished last; it is the one who never entered the race. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is 6.2(beta) running ok? 6.2 realease date ok?
Hello Family, Just wanting to check on how the latest beta of 6.2 is running and if anyone knows of any major delays in the release of 6.2. -- Bill Schoolcraft * Unix System Engineer ~ When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to add flags to ifconfig at boot
--- David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: David Kelly writes: Or if one needs to ifconfig earlier in the startup process then put one's script in /etc/start_if.em0 It is my understanding (and experience) this only works when ifconfig_em0= in /etc/rc.conf. True only if your options for ifconfig in rc.conf would clear or override whatever it is you put in /etc/start_if_em0. As long as its something that can be done with multiple ifconfigs then all is fine. For example this works fine in /etc/start_if.xl0: #!/bin/sh ifconfig xl0 lladdr 00:01:23:45:67:89 with this in rc.conf: ifconfig_xl0=DHCP -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you very much for the above info David, I've always been challenged with my (encrypted) wireless card though, and usually have my own manual script that I run. Always wanted to have it start automagically when/if it is the card I'm using. (question) Besides the single line you have in /etc/rc.conf above to instruct DHCP to be used, can one place all the following somehow in rc.conf or will I have to get this going in a script location? Currently I give my card a static ip but would like to have it grab it's ipaddr by DHCP, here is the majority of the script, omitted are my ping tests of the gateway at the end. TIA # #!/bin/sh ifconfig wi0 ssid nwname ifconfig wi0 wepmode on ifconfig wi0 192.168.1.222 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig wi0 up wicontrol wi0 wepkey 0x1465466964 route add default 192.168.1.1 # ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin in the adobe website. Then download the flash plugin tar.gz and save it to some location. Extract the contents and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/plugins. Close opera and open again and enjoy the world of flash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Family, I'm running 6.1, installed linux-opera from ports in order to test the above, and the ports install seemed to go fine but I got this error when trying to start Opera, anyone seen this before? ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera opera: Preference initialization failure. File not found or could not be opened (-7) ## TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
At Thu, 14 Sep 2006 it looks like White Hat composed: --- michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? Yes, I just went to test my bandwidth at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest in order to see their gauge for I was told it was nice, but it would not fly, had to switch to another Unix variant to get it to work. -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: atapicam trouble (me too)
At Sun, 10 Sep 2006 it looks like Johan Johansen composed: I run 6.1-STABLE-200607 on my brand new box with Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2 x 2,40 GHz cpu (beautiful piece of machinery) I can use my dvd-devices with atapicd, but atapicam do not work. kldload atapicam causes an interrupt storm, I guess. I tried to take out atapicd from the kernel after reading http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/73675 In fact, I removed ataraid atapifd atapist too, without any luck. Here is output from top -S a few seconds after kldload atapicam last pid: 600; load averages: 0.24, 0.24, 0.11 up 0+00:02:36 11:27:53 88 processes: 5 running, 64 sleeping, 19 waiting CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 43.8% interrupt, 56.2% idle Mem: 22M Active, 9604K Inact, 28M Wired, 15M Buf, 1943M Free Swap: 4070M Total, 4070M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root1 171 52 0K 8K RUN1 2:03 99.26% idle: cpu1 12 root1 171 52 0K 8K RUN0 1:54 62.26% idle: cpu0 22 root1 -64 -183 0K 8K CPU0 0 0:09 36.41% irq16: uhci0+ 31 root1 -68 -187 0K 8K WAIT 1 0:01 0.00% irq19: re0 uhci3++ Could anyone point me in a direction too solve this, please? I was just messing with this with a very good PLEXTOR DVD-RW drive, tried to rebuild the kernel with only device atapicam and there was some issues, for some strange reason, the system wedged, then tried to read the drive's contents at boot time, and then I lost my X resolution upon booting back into KDE, I was there with only what amounted to 800x600 (actually something weirder than that) and could NOT restore my X session, tried to reconfigure X -- nada. The machine is triple booted with three different drives, X worked fine on the other variants -- I thought the integrated video_chip went bad, that was not the case, just 6.1 was bad, that was a bittersweet relief. When I did try to start X in the beginning the whole system wedged, could not understand why just adding the device atapicam line to a new kernel would do this, something got corrupted. I was getting perfect config files with Xorg -configure and no matter what, nothing now. Isn't 6.2 coming out soon? mvh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: atapicam trouble ()
At Sun, 10 Sep 2006 it looks like Josh Carroll composed: Neither disabling atapicam nor atapicd works on my Core2Duo system. I don't know whether it's related to the new IDE controllers (JMicron 363 and Intel ICH8) or a similar problem to what you're reporting. The best I can do is about 3MB/s with atapicd and DMA disabled and also with atapicam. Both have problems reading files from a DVD, I end up getting READ_BIG errors from the kernel. Sure would like to be able to use this DVD drive in FreeBSD! :) Josh ahh, took a break and using the drive to test a Solaris-10 install, been years since I tried this... had to go find an old Intel nic just to get networking up... I'm a glutten for punishment! Then I forgot to copy /etc/nsswitch.dns on top of /etc/nsswitch.conf and for the life of me could not get OUT on to the Internet... (giggle) If that atapicam attempt on my part did not blow Xorg out of the water and leave me at 800x600 I'd never be painfully beating myself with Solaris-10 now! Downloaded pkg-get so things are bearable! (grin) -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: solaris
At Tue, 5 Sep 2006 it looks like backyard composed: don't get me wrong I don't doubt it is a great system to use, which is why I kept on trying to get it installed on many different machines; from laptops to desktops, to servers, and my commodore... and I will admit I installed without really looking at the hardware compatability list... That being said ususally the boot loader will not load Solaris for me. The funny thing is when I had it on a machine with windows it would boot windows, just not Solaris. humbly_snipped I was just thinking about how much I enjoyed the feeling of doing a successfuly install and configuration of Solaris on a desktop, which was, in my case, not all that often. Whenever I could not get it to install, I'd just install FreeBSD with no problems. Now, that is the ironic, case in point, and I can only speak for myself, but... If just a relatively small handful of dedicated FreeBSD coders can produce an OS that will install on damm near ANYTHING I always found it troubling that SUN Microsystems, with all it's resources, could not, at the least, make their x86 OS (think Solaris-10) install with support, for lets say, what FreeBSD had for 4.2? I mean, all the drivers are available, wouldn't one think that they could at least support what FreeBSD supports in terms of number of devices? -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EVDO cards and FreeBSD (verizon or sprint)?
Hello Family, I have to get a EVDO card for work purposes and wanted to ask the group if anyone can offer any suggestions to: (A) The card to buy (Unix_Friendly) (B) Verizon or Sprint? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD/DVD on Promise controller crashes 6.1
Hello Family, I have a dual-boot box running FreeBSD-6.1 and SuSE-10.0 and I had a SCSI HP-9100 CDRW and took it out to put in a CD/DVD drive. I have three drives and a Plextor CD-RW/DVD-RW drive so all my controllers were used so I grabbed a Promise controller. Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 02) (prog-if 85) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Ultra100TX2 The first setup (SCSI HP-9100) worked on both OS's but now with the Promise card, only SuSE-10.0 works. If I boot into FreeBSD-6.1 the system lasts only about 4 to 5 minutes then completely crashes, zilch, nothing. FreeBSD was my default OS on that box and I'm wondering if there is any kernel flags/options that I can load real quick to get the box stable enough to see what has gone wrong. Once again I know the controller is fine, used it before on other boxes and it's been running fine and I've been using the CD/DVD drive hanging off the controller all last night and today. TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.1; reiserfs works only once, then crashes system :(
Hello Family I have a problem whereas if it never worked, I'd be ok for the moment but this worked once then never worked again. I have a fully functional 6.1 system working, dual booted with an OS that has a reiserfs partition. /dev/ad3s1 I was able to do the kernel module load of the reiserfs.ko once, did a full rsync of a directory and all was well. I then went to do another rsync and it hangs for a few seconds, the does a full system reboot. I've tried the exact set of steps that worked once and was wondering if I'm missing something or is reiserfs (ro) support not really fully there yet. TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft || http://wiliweld.com To be unhappy over what one lacks is to waste what one already possesses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dd wont work
At Mon, 26 Jun 2006 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed: Migs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've already looked around and found that dd will work on cd's only if the bs=2k argument is present. However, ive tried it both without (before knowing this) and with the argument, but I still cant pick up an image of the cd. I know that this should work: dd if=/dev/cd0 of=~/file.iso bs=2k but it doesn't. I always get a dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000225 secs (0 bytes/sec) I'm on 6.1 releng by the way, and the cd im trying to dd is knoppix. My combo drive is a 'LITE-ON ' 'COMBO SOHC-5236V' 'R$09' Removable CD-ROM thats a slave on ide0. What else should I be looking at? Are you actually copying from cd0, or acd0? Are you sure the problem isn't with the CD itself? That happens to me too, I have a Plextor DVD-RW/CD-RW drive. I have followed the device too to it's link in /dev/* and zilch. I was trying to dd an umounted FreeBSD iso to file. -- Bill Schoolcraft || http://wiliweld.com To be unhappy over what one lacks is to waste what one already possesses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: linksysmon Linksys Router logging util?
At Tue, 20 Jun 2006 it looks like Ted Mittelstaedt composed: It's easy to build that program by hand on FreeBSD. TEd Thanks Ted. -- Bill Schoolcraft || http://wiliweld.com To be unhappy over what one lacks is to waste what one already possesses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linksysmon Linksys Router logging util?
Hello Family, I spotted a program called linksysmon and was wondering if there is anything in ports that is similar? It's for accessing the logs of a Linksys router. Thanks -- Bill Schoolcraft || http://wiliweld.com Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MESS
At Mon, 22 May 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed: Yup. It is in /usr/bin I guess, I am so used to putting a copy of vi in /bin shortly after installing a new system that I assume it is always there. Can we actually 'de-install' then 're-install' vi(m) from PORTS with it statically compiled? Then we can move it to /bin (?) -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MESS (statically compiled vi )
At Mon, 22 May 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed: At Mon, 22 May 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed: Yup. It is in /usr/bin I guess, I am so used to putting a copy of vi in /bin shortly after installing a new system that I assume it is always there. Can we actually 'de-install' then 're-install' vi(m) from PORTS with it statically compiled? Then we can move it to /bin (?) You don't really need to de-install it. Just cp /usr/bin/vi /bin/. Make sure you are happy with the permissions. It will work. vi is pretty well self contained. Hmm, not sure if we are talking about in single user mode with only / mounted, here is what my version does with a dependency check... I see it need libs in /lib, which I'm sure is not on it's own partition, but I was hoping to get vi statically compiled. ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/editors]- ldd `which vi` /usr/bin/vi: libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x280b9000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x280f8000) ### -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MESS (BINGO! /rescue/vi )
At Mon, 22 May 2006 it looks like Daniel Bye composed: If you have /rescue on your system, you have a static vi already. Not vim, admittedly, but in a fix I would think you could muddle through with it. Bingo Dan! # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /rescue]- ldd ./vi ldd: ./vi: not a dynamic executable # -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.1 'No kernel found' after install
At Wed, 17 May 2006 it looks like Steve Bertrand composed: Hey everyone, I downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 yesterday, ensured the checksum was correct, and promptly expanded the ISO onto a CD. After seemingly successfully installing it onto a box (I have several other of these exact machines running 5 and 6.0), after reboot, it claims it can't find the kernel. I've ls'd pretty much all of the directories on the hard disk, and sure enough, it doesn't appear the kernel was installed. (I performed the install 4 times to be sure). That happened to me the first time, but worked the second time and I knew the second install was different than the first install for I was all of a sudden presented with single gui install-questions regarding users, and stuff like that. Not what I did different the second time other than resize the partitions by a slight amount to ensure that nothing from the previous install was used, even a previously formatted partition. It installed the second try. The only really relevant thing I found whilst searching was this: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=400340tstart=0 ...however, to my best knowledge, I did only do a minimum install. Again, the setup is exactly the same as several other machines, I can provide details if they may help. One thing that may be relevant is that I'm running with the 'ar' driver for a Promise RAID-1 config. Again, this setup works with the exact same installation technique under 6. I'm going to continue to play around, but if anyone has any clues, they would be much appreciated. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kids from Indonesia
At Wed, 17 May 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed: Assalamu'alaikum Wr. Wb. Hi there, I'm Dean Darmawan and still 18y/o. Well, i get interested with Fedora 5, but the main problem are can this distro Linux recognize my internal modem 56k that I ussally use to get connected to the Internet? For that kind of reason, i got confuse and step back!! My modem now is D-Link DFM-562IS HSFi PCI Modem. Thanx, best regard. Here is a starter for you in regards to Linux and hardware compatibility. There used to be another list way back when that I can't find now. http://www.linux-drivers.org/ We used to all be glued to the modem compatibility lists and alot of us found safe haven by getting (the now cheap) external modems. Here are some examples. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=564 (Excuse me for being long winded on this, I did tech support for Linuxcare for close to 5 years.) -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(6.1) KDE starts fine, no background(?)
Hello Family, First off, thanks to the FreeBSD team for yet another release and thanks again for the ability to install this new OS with floppies. I have a very good laptop with no CDROM. Now, I just installed, got X working fine, started KDE and the whole startup panels began, questions, etc. Finished. But had NO background, just the toolbar appeared. The apps work, just nothing but black for the background. This is a first for me since FreeBSD-3.4 Thanks -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad floppy disks
At Mon, 8 May 2006 it looks like Kevin Kinsey composed: Marty Landman wrote: This is giving me problems for some reason. I've put the floppy images on a Debian box in my office and dd'd onto a floppy. The boot.flp worked but then with the kern1.flp - which I dd'd onto the same floppy as boot.flp had gone on, get this after a while: zf_read: fill error readin failed elf32_loadimage: read failed Unable to load a kernel! Yeah, hard to know. In our tests, failure rate for floppy diskettes, straight from a local discount retailer, is in the nominal 60% range. You could keep trying... ? Just last night I was just trying to get three good floppies from a brand new package of 10 to install on a Fujitsu Lifebook with only a floppy and could not believe the failure rate. Finally got 6.0 installed via NFS after the floppy experience. Which poses another issue for another email about having two ISO's available for an NFS install mounted on another system. They also seemed to be made of flimsier plastic for when I used to fold them in half in disgust it used to take more effort than it does now! -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cat /proc/cpuinfo ?
Hello Family, Yes, yes, I know... I have a bunch of boxes under my desk here at home and between the Ultra-10, FreeBSD-5.4 and 6.0 and SuSE I get confused and that's what happened when I tried to type the following on my FreeBSD box. cat /proc/cpuinfo What I did get off my other box, where this command works was: ### processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 31 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping: 0 cpu MHz : 994.927 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce (snipped) bogomips: 1956.97 TLB size: 1024 4K pages clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp ### (question) Is there some *BSD port that will give me CPU information like the above from the command line? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cat /proc/cpuinfo ?
At Mon, 27 Mar 2006 it looks like Rob W. composed: Yep, It is located in your sysctl Try this: ' sysctl -a | less ' That should give you all info about the system including cpu, memory ect.. Thanks Rob, Yes, quite of bit of information... :) Hello Family, Yes, yes, I know... I have a bunch of boxes under my desk here at home and between the Ultra-10, FreeBSD-5.4 and 6.0 and SuSE I get confused and that's what happened when I tried to type the following on my FreeBSD box. cat /proc/cpuinfo What I did get off my other box, where this command works was: ### processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 31 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping: 0 cpu MHz : 994.927 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce (snipped) bogomips: 1956.97 TLB size: 1024 4K pages clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp ### (question) Is there some *BSD port that will give me CPU information like the above from the command line? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0, allow remote logging?
At Wed, 22 Mar 2006 it looks like Doug Poland composed: On 2/5/06, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to get 6.0 to allow itself to accept logs. I have a line in /etc/rc.conf that states the remote machine: syslogd_flags=-a 192.168.0.3 I have restarted syslogd so the output of ps -auxw | grep syslog shows the following: root 21703 0.0 0.3 1296 748 ?? Ss 9:31PM 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 192.168.0.3 And my 'ps -auxw' output shows syslogd running with the -s ipaddr too. I wonder how to trigger that port to receive packets. Apparently syslogd believes all is well. :( I'm having the same problem getting syslogd to work on a 6.0-STABLE box. My ps -waux command shows the -a ipaddr, and sockstat -l confirms that it's listening on port 514/udp. Logging works from the localhost only, not from any remote hosts. Yes, I too had the issue and had to use my SuSE-9.3 box to receive logs... Maybe it's the curse of the dot-oh release(s) who knows. -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hosts.allow ?
At Sun, 19 Mar 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed: One doesn't start anything from the rc.conf file - at least properly. Those things get started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d. What goes in /etc/rc.conf are environmental variable settings that those rc.d scripts look at to determine what to do. I was under the impression that when one 'restarts' that the service will re-read /etc/rc.conf ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- uname -r 6.0-RELEASE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- /etc/rc.d/sshd restart ### -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed: I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. Do you have the wireless working too on that model, the integrated chip? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Power adapter question (off topic, sorry)
Hello, I'm hoping I can find a solution. I've lost my Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 power supply. The Access Point states it needs 9volts-DC @ 1.1amps. All I can find at Radio Shack is 9volts-DC @ 1.0amps. Is there any electricians out there that can advise me on what to do? Thanks -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD (5150)
Greg, I want to thank you for you help in making FreeBSD what it is today. I first met Greg on a fluke and a weird one that that too. While working in techsupport at Linuxcare, and the only one to my knowledge doing so running FreeBSD, I was sitting there one day and this fellow comes in, scans the room and makes a bee-line to my work area. I at the time was the only techsupport with my personal library of Unix/Linux tech books. Having just left the Machinist Union for the 'dot-com' I was alway one for self help. This guy, with the scraggly beard reaches over me, grabs the first FreeBSD book written by Greg Lehey and opens it. At that time in San Francisco we were having alot of homeless people getting into the office building and sometimes wandering the halls on drugs, drunk or whatever. When I asked him Hey..., can I help you? He said, I wrote this book! At that time I was sure he was 5150 (the penal code for being nuts) and I was about to get up and escort him out when one of my co-workers, knowing my background as an ex-steelworker at the San Francisco waterfront quickly jumped in and introduced Greg Lehey to me, I then realized it was not a joke, Greg was not a homeless person, and I've felt honored ever since to have been a co-worker of his, briefly sharing the same domain name in our work's email address. A few weeks later Richard Stallman came through the office... I had the exact same inkling this time but jumped up pre-emptively and again my co-worker came to the rescue. I could write a book of the stuff that I've experienced, maybe call it From the Shipyards to Silicon Valley or something The one thing I've learned (besides FreeBSD kicks ass) is that in this industry you can NEVER, EVER judge a book by it's cover! -- Bill Schoolcraft http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0, allow remote logging? (correction)
At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Bill Schoolcraft composed: At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: But when I go to check an see if the external port 514/udp is open I get nothing showing: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- nmap localhost (The 1660 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http # Umm... by default nmap only scans /TCP/ ports. syslog is a /UDP/ service. Try sockstat(1) to see what network ports processes are listening on, and use nmap like so to scan for UDP listeners: # nmap -sU -p U:1-8080 hostname Note that UDP scans intrinsically tend to take a lot longer than TCP scans -- the nmap(1) man page explains why -- so don't try scanning too many ports at once, or you'll be waiting years for a result. Thanks Matthew for the above example. I tried it and nothing came up as open. And my 'ps -auxw' output shows syslogd running with the -s ipaddr too. I wonder how to trigger that port to receive packets. Apparently syslogd believes all is well. :( Sorry, the correction is that the ps output shows -a ipaddr -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://wiliweld.com| spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0, allow remote logging?
At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: But when I go to check an see if the external port 514/udp is open I get nothing showing: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- nmap localhost (The 1660 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http # Umm... by default nmap only scans /TCP/ ports. syslog is a /UDP/ service. Try sockstat(1) to see what network ports processes are listening on, and use nmap like so to scan for UDP listeners: # nmap -sU -p U:1-8080 hostname Note that UDP scans intrinsically tend to take a lot longer than TCP scans -- the nmap(1) man page explains why -- so don't try scanning too many ports at once, or you'll be waiting years for a result. Thanks Matthew for the above example. I tried it and nothing came up as open. And my 'ps -auxw' output shows syslogd running with the -s ipaddr too. I wonder how to trigger that port to receive packets. Apparently syslogd believes all is well. :( TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://wiliweld.com| spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.0, allow remote logging?
Hello Family, I've been trying to get 6.0 to allow itself to accept logs. I have a line in /etc/rc.conf that states the remote machine: syslogd_flags=-a 192.168.0.3 I have restarted syslogd so the output of ps -auxw | grep syslog shows the following: root 21703 0.0 0.3 1296 748 ?? Ss 9:31PM 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 192.168.0.3 But when I go to check an see if the external port 514/udp is open I get nothing showing: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- nmap localhost (The 1660 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http # So, I was wondering if there is any specific doc's on this setup. I fail to find anything specific on the FreeBSD site. TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://wiliweld.com| spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(6.0) Firefox error, Building for atk-1.9.1 ?
Hello Family, Well I've read alot of Firefox posts and seconds after a successful ports update via cvsup I went to build and install Firefox and although I can easily open the Makefile in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk apparently Firefox cannot while attempting to build and install. Here is last part of the two above processes, TIA. # snipped Updating collection ports-www/cvs Updating collection ports-x11/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-clocks/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-fm/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-fonts/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-servers/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-themes/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-toolkits/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-wm/cvs Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/firefox]- make install clean === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on executable: zip - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on executable: gmake - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/intltool-extract - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: jpeg.9 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: png.5 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: nspr4 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: nss3 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: Xft.2 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: atk-1.0.0 - not found ===Verifying install for atk-1.0.0 in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk === Building for atk-1.9.1 make: cannot open Makefile. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/firefox]- uname -r 6.0-RELEASE /snipped # -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 UNIX, A Way of Life. http://wiliweld.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (6.0) Firefox error, Building for atk-1.9.1 ?
At Sat, 28 Jan 2006 it looks like Kent Stewart composed: On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:58, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Well I've read alot of Firefox posts and seconds after a successful ports update via cvsup I went to build and install Firefox and although I can easily open the Makefile in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk apparently Firefox cannot while attempting to build and install. Something is out of whack on your port system because the current version of atk is 1.10.3 and portupgrade had no problem building it on my machine. Kent Ok, I think I see what's wrong. I followed the instrucions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and chose alot of the ports to update but did not chose to keep /usr/ports/accessibility/ updated and that of course is where /usr/ports/accessibility/atk is. Let me update that port and try again. Thanks. Here is last part of the two above processes, TIA. # snipped Updating collection ports-www/cvs Updating collection ports-x11/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-clocks/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-fm/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-fonts/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-servers/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-themes/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-toolkits/cvs Updating collection ports-x11-wm/cvs Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/firefox]- make install clean === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on executable: zip - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on executable: gmake - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/intltool-extract - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: jpeg.9 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: png.5 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: nspr4 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: nss3 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: Xft.2 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found === firefox-1.5_5,1 depends on shared library: atk-1.0.0 - not found ===Verifying install for atk-1.0.0 in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk === Building for atk-1.9.1 make: cannot open Makefile. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/firefox]- uname -r 6.0-RELEASE /snipped # -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 UNIX, A Way of Life. http://wiliweld.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports
At Tue, 24 Jan 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed: Hello, I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? thanks, Sincerely, Just cd into the /usr/ports/category/package and type make install clean It will fetch all the needed dependencies, kinda fun to watch if your new to it :) -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 UNIX, A Way of Life. http://wiliweld.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/eth0 question - prefer reply in next 20mins
At Sat, 7 Jan 2006 it looks like Peter Leftwich composed: On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Robert Slade wrote: As the problem is with FC4 why not ask on their mailing list? Rob Good point, and I apologize for the transgression. (With my PC off, I took out the NIC, tapped it, blew dust off it, rebooted and DSL worked fine! Go figure.) I've had instances where if a machine is a dual boot that one has to clear the previous systems (residual) settings by powering off, then back on. Soft (re)booting from one OS to the other would not clear the nic of prior settings. Hope that helps. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 UNIX, A Way of Life. http://billschoolcraft.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs exporting mounted iso files ?
Hello Family, I have been trying to export four mounted iso images under /mnt on my FreeBSD-5.4 box via nfs and I can export everything under /mnt but the iso's don't show up on the client, only the directories. First I mounted all the iso's with the following series of commands. mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file1.iso -u 1 mount -t cd9660 /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file1.iso -u 2 mount -t cd9660 /dev/md2 /mnt/loop2 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file3.iso -u 3 mount -t cd9660 /dev/md3 /mnt/loop3 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file4.iso -u 4 mount -t cd9660 /dev/md4 /mnt/loop4 # ere is my /etc/exportfs on the FreeBSD-5.4 server /mnt-maproot=0 -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 # Here are the mounted iso's via the mount command on the server. /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1 (cd9660, local, read-only) /dev/md2 on /mnt/loop2 (cd9660, local, read-only) /dev/md3 on /mnt/loop3 (cd9660, local, read-only) /dev/md4 on /mnt/loop4 (cd9660, local, read-only) # On the other Unix client box I can mount the exported /mnt and see all the /mnt/loop* but no contents. On the other Unix client box I can also mount /mnt/loop1 and still not see any contents under /mnt/loop1 On the server the directories are full of contents under /mnt/loop1 /mnt/loop2 /mnt/loop3 /mnt/loop4 I'm thinking that I can nfs export iso filesystems on other flavors of Unix like systems but not on FreeBSD. Am I missing anything obvious or...? TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I programatically eject a live cd?
At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Sean Bruno composed: On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:35 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Sean Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was looking for an answer to this question. Since my CD is actually the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the system is running. So is there a way to do this that y'all have found, or do I have to change my CD to run from memory(RAMDISK) instead of running from the CD. You want to eject your running root filesystem? That's a *really* crazy idea. Why do you want to do that? Well, I don't want to eject my running root filesystem, but I need to have the CD eject on a reboot/halt of the system. So, is there a nicer way of doing this? There is on other Unix type OS's the command eject which will actually open the CD tray. I use it all the time in the server colo when there is some mislabed machines, I'll make sure all the CDROM trays are shut, login to the machine and type eject and the tray of the mislabed machine will pop open. Here is some information that may or may not help you in finding a *BSD equivalent: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- ldd `which eject` libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- file `which eject` /usr/bin/eject: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- # -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I programatically eject a live cd?
At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Thomas Linton composed: I believe that you can't do this because you are sitting on this CD. In general: # cdcontrol eject or with port /usr/ports/sysutils/eject just # eject Jeez, first off I didn't know this command existed for *BSD and then read the manpage and saw to my amazement... # AUTHOR Shunsuke Akiyama [EMAIL PROTECTED] HISTORY The eject command appeared in FreeBSD 2.X FreeBSD 5.4 Sep 24, 2000 # -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(6.0) Suspend kills usb CDRW drive :(
Hello Family, I have 6.0-REL running fine on my T21 Thinkpad and have a USB (Memorex) CD+RW drive hooked up to it. Now for the USB CD+RW, dmesg saw it as /dev/cd0 so I read a little and edited /etc/devfs.conf to show /dev/cd0 and it was at that point, after rebooting, that I was able to start burning. It works fine, cdrecord -scanbus sees it as 0,0,0 and I can burn CD's just fine. That is, until I suspend the laptop by closing the screen (shutting the hood :) Upon opening the lid it's never been news to me on my 4.10 laptop to have to bring the network device back to life by: ifconfig fxp0 up Ok, with that information, how can I bring the USB /dev/cd0 back from the dead? No longer does cdrecord -scanbus show the device like it does after a fresh reboot. TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diagnosing reboot under load
At Mon, 7 Nov 2005 it looks like Micah composed: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the surge strip. I'm probably going to get a new PSU today. The parts store has a couple of 400 watters in the $50 range (a fortron and a thermaltake). Cheap power supplies are a near guarantee that your computer will be unstable. Unfortunately, $cheap doesn't always == quality cheap. I recommend the more recent one as a guage for what manufacturers you can trust. Frankly, if you're only spending $50 on a 400W, you're probably getting a piece of junk - although Fortron has been rating well in Tom's tests. A PSU actually capable of 350W *ought* to have done you fine, but many cheap PSUs, as Bill says, just don't cut it. I'd personally recommend a Seasonic, which won't be cheap, but will be quiet and reliable if mine is anything to go by. Antec also seem to have a reasonable rep. There's a nice wattage claculator here: http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/Power_Supply_Calculator.php? --Alex Thanks for the link. I actually used that calculator when I pieced this machine together. I'm really beginning to doubt it's the PSU. Why? I cannot get the output voltage to drop no matter what load I throw at it. I plugged in four additional hard drives and ran a system stress test and still the voltages remained rock steady at the values I stated earlier. I ran it for an hours with the high-low monitor on a Fluke multimeter. The +5 stayed near 5.1 with 5.08 as the bottom, and the +12 stayed near 11.89 with 11.84 as the minimum. I even had one of the random segfaults and the +12 voltage never dropped below 11.84. I'm not sure how I can get the load any higher without using resistors which most certainly does not simulate the load I'm generating while compiling. Hello, How were you using the Fluke meter to test amperage? I was not aware that it would work with a ground line embedded inside the power cable? I currently have a Fluke-T5-600 and I'm curious about the above test. http://www.tequipment.net/FlukeT5-600VoltageTester.html Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Covert m4p to mp3 (in FreeBSD ?)
Hello Family, Does anyone know how to convert a .m4p file to a .mp3 file? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)
At Mon, 31 Oct 2005 it looks like Gary Kline composed: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:13:31PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 17:11, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also sounds a tad like forum fodder. bsdforums.org is fairly well trafficked --- I daresay it'd do fairly well there, considering there's a show us your desktop thread that gets several posts a week for the past two years or so.. Sounds like something I'll check into. I'd think that a forum could be scoured and formatted into pages. Given a few scripts. Plus the *time*. Because I could never write them all that well I used to just browse thru these for some ideas... http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/ -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like John Oxley composed: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +1000, Warren wrote: im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? Install /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended partitioning
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Teo De Las Heras composed: Based on recommendations here is how I'm going to partition the two FreeBSD servers that I'm installing in my lab. mail, print, web, and file server Part Size / 200M /usr 15G - Ports live in usr /tmp 256M (swap) 2G - paging file /var 10G - print spool, db files, other log files?? /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup /www 5G - Web server - I'm going to have a lot of content /home 50G - for all user files *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition Firewall/Router Part Size / 200M /tmp 256M /usr 7G swap 512M /var 2G humbly_snipped I found this to be an interesting read on all FreeBSD boxes man hier -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it won't work, sorry :( Do you see all/any of this getting resolved with the release of 6.0 ? This of course is not the first port that has this limitation. I was really stoked to get my first amd64 with 1-gig of ram, I had no idea that these bumps would occur. I run 5.4 on i386 and it was that experience that led me to get the 64bit box. I have it triple booted with FreeBSD-5.4/WinXP-Pro/SuSE-9.3 but keep it booted into BSD to keep the faith! -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)
At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Andrew P. composed: humbly_snipped It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports themselves should get to work under amd64. Ahh, very good point. I didn't look at it from that angle. 2006 will probably become the year of widespread adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All server software that was popular enough was ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly. Yes, the flash plugin had me sigh also... From being used to using Unix based OS's for a while, I've come to not expect flash to work on anything, sad as it may seem. I guess it's like the unix-fonts in our browsers, you kinda get numb to the whole thing. Thanks for the replies. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Vladimir Kushnir composed: Sorry for intrusion but it DOES work (with some of WMAs, at least). What I've done was comment out ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line and then make CC='cc -fpic -DPIC' was all. BTW, mplayer and ffplayer (from ffmpeg - or perhaps ffmpeg-devel - port) also can play WMAs. Regards, Vladimir That was a very nice bit of information my friend, just saw the whole program compile as a result of your help. I thank you. :) -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stored hard drive failure?
At Wed, 5 Oct 2005 it looks like K Anderson composed: Hey folks, I thought a saw a thread on something like this but I can't seem to find it so I figure I might as well ask and see what turns up. The scenario: I use a hard drive to mirror my main hard drive. I then pull the alternate hard drive off the system and store it for later use should the primary drive fail, or the system as a whole fails. How long can the hard drive sit on the shelf before some sort of natural cause that prevents it from spinning up properly? Well, this may or may not be of any help but are these stored drives kept in a hermetic seal? I just bought a 'de-humidifier' for my room (not for computer reasons but now I'm glad for that reason) and I was SHOCKED to see that after 24-hours it had collected 1/2 gallon of water out of the air and it was just an average day out here in San Francisco, no rain nor fog. I would imagine that it would affect the drives I have stored in boxes in my house too. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash PLugin for FireFox
At Sat, 1 Oct 2005 it looks like Andrew P. composed: On 10/1/05, Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats a good stable flash plugin for FireFox for FreeBSD? various ones i have tried in the past have made the browser to unstable to use. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] www/linuxpluginwrapper-20050910 + www/linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 Hmm, any idea when this will be available for 'amd64' ? # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper]- make install === linuxpluginwrapper-20050613 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin]- make install === linux-flashplugin-5.0r51_3 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATTN: Gary Kline
At Mon, 26 Sep 2005 it looks like Kris Kennaway composed: You are blocking mail from me again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host ns1.thought.org[216.231.43.140] said: 550 5.0.0 No SPAM (in reply to MAIL FROM command) This has been an issue in the past..unless you can get it under control I'll just stop bothering to read your emails, in case I'm tempted to try to help you again. Thanks, Kris Hey Kris, I feel for ya... I'm in the position where I can receive mail from the FreeBSD mailing list but can't post to it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Codeweaver for *BSD software petition, please consider signing.. :)
Hello Family, I've used the software by Codeweaver (tarball) to install all the windows software for any proprietary needs, Photoshop, Office, etc. They are willing and we are trying to show them interest. http://www.bsdnexus.com/petition.asp __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gaim or aim on 5.4 amd64 ?
Hello Family, I'm trying to get either GAIM or AIM to work on my 5.4 amd64 to no avail. It works on my 5.4 i386 and I was wondering if anyone can help, here is my ports failure message for GAIM. AIM reports only being ported to i386. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/gaim]- make install clean === gaim-1.2.1 has known vulnerabilities: = gaim -- Yahoo! remote crash vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/2701611f-df5c-11d9-b875-0001020eed82.html = gaim -- MSN Remote DoS vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/b6612eee-df5f-11d9-b875-0001020eed82.html = gaim -- MSN remote DoS vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/ad5e70bb-c429-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24.html = gaim -- remote crash on some protocols. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/889061af-c427-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24.html = Please update your ports tree and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/gaim. # Thanks in advance. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(5.4) gaim available in i386 but not amd64?
Hello Family, I was able to build gaim in 5.4 on i386 but it's not available in 5.4 on amd64... Is there any workaround for this? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS test-page prints fine, nothing else.. (freebsd-5.4)
Hello Family, I was wondering if this is a bug somewhere in FreeBSD-5.4 or I've just been getting lucky with CUPS all the time... :) I have a HP 840c and it's connected remotely on my network with a fixed ipaddress and every box on my network can print to it and so can FreeBSD as long as it's from the CUPS interface/setup GUI and it's a test page, other than that -- zilch. I can't find anything anywhere that will give me a clue as to why this happens. TIA for any pointers on this. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4 :(
Note: forwarded message attached. Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com---BeginMessage--- --- Denny White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm writing is very basic, but I just got an answer to a question where I'd forgotten a very basic thing, so don't get insulted. I may be way off base, being a relative newbie, but if so, it'll at least probably get a quicker response from somewhere else. :) First off Denny, thanks for answering my email for help. Here goes.. 1) Are you still running GENERIC kernel? YES 2) Do you have /dev/psm0? YES 3) Do you have, in /etc/rc.conf moused_enable=YES? Yes, manually entered it. 4) Do you have, in your kernel config file, # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device psm # PS/2 mouse YES 5) Do you show something like this in dmesg? psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 Yes, actually here is what it says: psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 6) I know when you don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, X will still probe try to come up with a working solution, but as to where it stores it's settings, unless in the afore mentioned file, I don't know. I'd love to see the file it generates for X looks great when I leave it alone and startkde with no files. 7) And if, after running without an xorg.conf file, it does have one it generated, does it have anything like this? I can't seem to find the one it's using, here are the results of a seach I did. I had one file in my home directory from another machine but that file is not named valid for use, here is the seach results. liam# find / -name xorg.c* /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/xorg.cf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg /usr/home/wiliweld/xorg.conf.new # Identifier and driver Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolAuto Option Device /dev/sysmouse 8) There have been other posts about xorg.conf problems recently. As I said, if you don't configure it yourself, it'll try to probe come up with something. I guess it's having trouble with your mouse, though, which, btw, you didn't mention what kind of mouse. Did you check the hardware compat list? Hope some of this helped. The mouse I'm using works fine in another 32bit 5.4 machine and here is the seach path results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- find / -name xorg.c* -print /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/xorg.cf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg /root/xorg.conf.new And inside the last file there is the mouse settings of: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse EndSection I'll keep hacking Denny, thanks Denny White -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCvPvsy0Ty5RZE55oRAqXuAJ9AlZQPVix4Wlbyznuo27/Vt/JPOgCgmlsP Zc0l1pdCB1IOwexObMWmSbE= =yUMc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ---End Message--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4/amd64 (update..)
Hello Family, I forgot to add that this mouse is working fine (at the same time) on FreeBSD-5.4/32bit too via the KVM switch, along with two other OS's. Thanks __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html ---BeginMessage--- Hello Family, I was totally stoked to get my first 64-bit PC, an AMD/Athlon and it came with Windows-XP Pro, and I did what I always do and that's to then install Linux then FreeBSD. All my machines work great like this with the Linux bootloader doing the booting of WinXP/Linux/FreeBSD. The thing that bums me out is that the mouse works with WinXP and SuSE-9.3 but there is no luck with the mouse with FreeBSD-5.4, KDE came up just fine though. Per postings to the web I have added and removed and added the line to /boot/device.hints of: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 I also enabled and disabled ACPI in the BIOS too on various attempts. I have ran: Xorg -configure and ran the file that it generated with really bad results then deleted the generated file and made sure /etc/X11 was empty and with no apparent config file got a great display of kde when I started KDE, what file it used I don't know. I ran a trace on startx (with a .xinitrc file containing startkde) and I could not seem to determine it. I'm still used to /etc/X11/XF86Config but there is none in the new 5.4 So, I really tried to find some solution to this and more or less hit a brick wall. Thanks in advance for any help on this. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---End Message--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Hello Family, Well, now I just had one more question about the FreeBSD-5.4/amd64 system I'm trying to get the mouse working on. I booted in verbose mode and spotted the following in dmesg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- dmesg|grep psm0 psm0: current command byte:0047 psm0: PS/2 Mouse flags 0x2000 irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4-00, 5 buttons psm0: config:2000, flags:0008, packet size:4 psm0: syncmask:08, syncbits:00 Does anyone have any idea what the GIANT-LOCKED comment means? Thanks again everyone. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4 :(
Hello Family, I was totally stoked to get my first 64-bit PC, an AMD/Athlon and it came with Windows-XP Pro, and I did what I always do and that's to then install Linux then FreeBSD. All my machines work great like this with the Linux bootloader doing the booting of WinXP/Linux/FreeBSD. The thing that bums me out is that the mouse works with WinXP and SuSE-9.3 but there is no luck with the mouse with FreeBSD-5.4, KDE came up just fine though. Per postings to the web I have added and removed and added the line to /boot/device.hints of: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 I also enabled and disabled ACPI in the BIOS too on various attempts. I have ran: Xorg -configure and ran the file that it generated with really bad results then deleted the generated file and made sure /etc/X11 was empty and with no apparent config file got a great display of kde when I started KDE, what file it used I don't know. I ran a trace on startx (with a .xinitrc file containing startkde) and I could not seem to determine it. I'm still used to /etc/X11/XF86Config but there is none in the new 5.4 So, I really tried to find some solution to this and more or less hit a brick wall. Thanks in advance for any help on this. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(starbucks) ssid = tmobile and 5.x (hit-n-miss)
Hello Family, Well sometimes I wish I had all the answers... I need some advice. When I proudly bring my FreeBSD-5.x laptop(s) into Starbucks, I have my wi0 set for DHCP in /etc/rc.conf and I never have consistant handshakes with the server, same coffee shop, same everything. Sometimes I'm so pressed for time that I can't go through all the ifconfig wi0 ... commands and I just have to reboot into godammmed windows and it friggin works. FUCKING HUMILIATING. (sorry for the adj.) Does anyone have any supplimental arguments to /etc/rc.conf to get me onto my account at Starbucks? I firmly believe one cannot: Save Face And Ass At Same Time hence my email. Thank You :) Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Determining integrated sound card(?)
Hello Family, I just got a new box and I'm running 5.4 and it has a generic PC_Chips M863G motherboard and all I get from dmesg is: pci0: multimedia, audio at device 2.7 (no driver attached) I was wondering how to make an educated guess on what driver to try and load first? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.4 package install woes.... :(
At 13 May 2005 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed: Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages. I cannot seem to get the new mdconfig to mount the iso's. It's probably easier to just copy the packages off of there and use pkg_add rather than sysinstall. But it should be fine either way. Here is the command I'm using. (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2) ## mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1 mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1 mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block You forgot the -t cd9660 option to mount. If you leave that out, mount will try to treat the filesystem as UFS. So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install from the post install menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me install disk-1 once and disk-2 once and all my package choices are done. A little tricky, but someone could write code to do that. It would probably require a bit of intelligence up front, to make sure that nothing on Disc 1 had any dependencies on Disc 2. Or maybe just to copy all of the packages from both CDs in /usr/ports/packages and then install the requested ones. Thanks for the above information, it does give me a new view on the problem and some angles of approach that sound good. Thanks -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please--| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v http://billschoolcraft.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.4 package install woes.... :(
At 13 May 2005 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed: Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages. I cannot seem to get the new mdconfig to mount the iso's. It's probably easier to just copy the packages off of there and use pkg_add rather than sysinstall. But it should be fine either way. Here is the command I'm using. (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2) ## mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1 mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1 mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block You forgot the -t cd9660 option to mount. If you leave that out, mount will try to treat the filesystem as UFS. So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install from the post install menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me install disk-1 once and disk-2 once and all my package choices are done. A little tricky, but someone could write code to do that. It would probably require a bit of intelligence up front, to make sure that nothing on Disc 1 had any dependencies on Disc 2. Or maybe just to copy all of the packages from both CDs in /usr/ports/packages and then install the requested ones. Thanks for the above information, it does give me a new view on the problem and some angles of approach that sound good. Thanks -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please--| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v http://billschoolcraft.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.4, switching disks during install...
Hello Family, Was installing 5.4 and decided to pick some packages from the sysinstall menu and found myself being prompted every 2 or 3 packages to take out disk-1 to install disk-2 then take out disk-1 and install disk-2 etc Yes, I've installed ports and will work off that now. In hindsight it would be nice to have all your selected packages taken from disk-1 then insert disk-2, then your done. After 19 disk changes I just stopped, now in /usr/ports.. I was wondering if I missed something. Thanks -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please--| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v http://billschoolcraft.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.4 package install woes... :(
Hello Family, Well, it's been two days now of watching both from work and from home the building of /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and I started this thinking it would be an hour or two adventure for after about 19 inserting/reinserting of disks 1 then 2 then 1 then 2 etc of just trying to do what I've always done with one install disk with FreeBSD. So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages. I cannot seem to get the new mdconfig to mount the iso's. Here is the command I'm using. (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2) ## mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso -u 2 mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1 mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block mount /dev/md2 /mnt/loop2 mount: /dev/md2 on /mnt/loop2: incorrect super block These two iso images are the exact same ones that worked fine with the install, all MD5 sums are correct. ## So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install from the post install menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me install disk-1 once and disk-2 once and all my package choices are done. I'm anxious to use this version of FreeBSD, been using this OS since the 3.4 and was really bummed out to have to post this email but we are all family and I have no where else to ask this. Namaste -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please--| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v http://billschoolcraft.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.4 package install woes.... :(
Hello Family, Well, it's been two days now of watching both from work and from home the building of /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and I started this thinking it would be an hour or two adventure for after about 19 inserting/reinserting of disks 1 then 2 then 1 then 2 etc of just trying to do what I've always done with one install disk with FreeBSD. So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages. I cannot seem to get the new mdconfig to mount the iso's. Here is the command I'm using. (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2) ## mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso -u 2 mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1 mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block mount /dev/md2 /mnt/loop2 mount: /dev/md2 on /mnt/loop2: incorrect super block These two iso images are the exact same ones that worked fine with the install, all MD5 sums are correct. ## So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install from the post install menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me install disk-1 once and disk-2 once and all my package choices are done. I'm anxious to use this version of FreeBSD, been using this OS since the 3.4 and was really bummed out to have to post this email but we are all family and I have no where else to ask this. Namaste __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup
At Wed, 5 Jan 2005 it looks like Miguel Mendez composed: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:10:46 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A bit OT but wanted to throw my $0.02 anyway... CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine and makes it harder to troubleshoot. I don't personally care much for this. I don't understand where all this animosity against CUPS comes from, but it's not the first time I've seen people flaming against it. If you don't like it, don't use it. CUPS is very easy to troubleshoot, perhaps you didn't bother reading the man pages. Enable debugging log mode and read the logs, all the info is there. Setting up my USB laserprinter takes 10 seconds with CUPS. Drop the ppd file, point the browser at localhost:631 and configure the printer. Done. The computer is a tool to get the job done, and most people have better things to do than spend more time than needed setting up their printer. It's also worth mentioning that Samba 3.x and CUPS integreate seamlessly. I must chime in here. I was bragging about how, on the first try, I got CUPS to print with Solaris-8 (x86) from my Netscape browser. I don't want to start a flame war but anyone who's tried to get ink jet printers to work _first_try_ on Solaris(x86) will probably be nodding their heads in agreement. NOW, I also totally concur with KIS[s] and the reasons for not getting too heavy into overhead. Hell, I still prefer PINE as my MUA just because it was the first one I ever used on Unix. Namaste -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please--| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v http://billschoolcraft.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libintl.so.6
At Tue, 28 Dec 2004 it looks like Kris Kennaway composed: humbly_snipped I'm guessing the application was originally installed on 4.x before you updated, then you rebuilt gettext after you updated, so libintl picked up the fact that stpcpy exists in libc.so.5, but your application is still linked to libc.so.4. We don't provide this kind of mixed 4.x/5.x binary compatibility, so you need to recompile or reinstall everything that links to the libraries you updated (or just recompile everything, which might be easier since otherwise this problem will recur with the next library you rebuild). e.g. portupgrade -fa or portupgrade -faPP I also had and error with this particular library when trying to use ymessenger after a flawless ports install that had no errors. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 United States of America http://billschoolcraft.com We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restarting rc.conf
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Ruben de Groot composed: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed: This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has been removed from rc.conf). Therefore I think this is better: foreach dir in /etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d do cd $dir foreach file in * do $file forcestop $file start done done Have you actually tested this? I think not. (Hint: look at the scripts that are in /etc/rc.d and what they actually do. Then RTM rcorder(8).) Hello Ruben, I'm running 5.2.1 and don't have a manpage anywhere for recorder (man 8 recorder) etc... Is this a 4.x item or am I missing some packages on my 5.2.1 install? Thanks -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 United States of America http://billschoolcraft.com We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restarting rc.conf (SOLVED-duh)
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Bill Schoolcraft composed: At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Ruben de Groot composed: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed: This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has been removed from rc.conf). Therefore I think this is better: foreach dir in /etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d do cd $dir foreach file in * do $file forcestop $file start done done Have you actually tested this? I think not. (Hint: look at the scripts that are in /etc/rc.d and what they actually do. Then RTM rcorder(8).) Hello Ruben, I'm running 5.2.1 and don't have a manpage anywhere for recorder (man 8 recorder) etc... Is this a 4.x item or am I missing some packages on my 5.2.1 install? Just woke up, sorry man rcorder works -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 United States of America http://billschoolcraft.com We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resolv.conf - hosts
At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 it looks like Brian Henning composed: Greetings All: Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for a resolution before querying the dns server(s)? That is normally done in /etc/nsswitch.conf -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resolv.conf - hosts
At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 it looks like Brian Henning composed: I am running FBSD 4.10, does the /etc/nsswitch.conf file work on freebsd 4.10 or is it just for 5.X? That's a good question for I don't see it on my 4.10, but it's a very old, or very inherent file in all the Unix based systems I've seen. It comes from Solaris operating systems by origin. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creating a FAT32 on new drive...
hello family, I have some drives that I've brought home for repair. I have a Promise IDE controller installed with dual ports and two 36 IDE ribbons attached to the Promise controller and snaking out an open CDROM slot, along with a powersupply leads. My FreeBSD box boots fine, the Promise card shows up and my first drive came up as /dev/ad5. I used sysinstall to delete the old partitions and now need to simple create one big FAT32 partition/drive and see if things work when this drive is placed back into a machine at work. I saw no options for FAT32 in the sysinstall menus of fdisk and was wondering if I can whip this drive into shape via command line. Thanks. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a FAT32 on new drive...
At Wed, 17 Nov 2004 it looks like scott renna composed: I believe it's partition type 11. Check this out: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html I tried, this method and yeah, windows can't read it :( bo. I'm working on another method though now. Thanks for the rapid response. I'm lucky it booted for this machine is a triple boot with 2000/Linux/FreeBSD and Linux flipped out when I tried to do a regular boot with LILO and seemed like a normal boot but all of a sudden it dove straight for the drive hanging on the Promise controller and booted that!! The drive hanging on the Promise card is an Linux OS. I don't know how in the hell it got that confused so I looked at the drive hanging on cables coming out of my machine, saw it was jumped as a master and figured that had to be the problem so I jumped it as a slave on the Promise card (now it's /dev/ad5) AND LINUX STILL BOOTED IT off the Promise controller Windows 2000 never saw the drive hanging off the Promise controller either. Only FreeBSD was able to tackle the drive successfully. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/X11/XF86Config
= 228.6 DisplaySize 305 229 EndSection Section Device # VendorNamenVidia Corporation# xf86cfg visualmode # BoardName NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go]# xf86cfg visualmode # xf86cfg -textmode # xf86cfg -textmode # BusID PCI:1:0:0 # xf86cfg visualmode Identifier Card0 Driver nv ChipSet GeForce4 440 Go Cardnv GeForce4 440 Go EndSection Section Screen # Toshiba User's Manual Chapter E: # 15.0 TFT LCD will do 1024x768, 1400x1050, 1600x1200 # extern monitor will do 2048 x 1536 @ 16M colours # DefaultDepth 16 # xf86cfg -textmode Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes1600x1200 1400x1050 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 it looks like Emanuel Strobl composed: Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and I'm sure 64 MB and a 1gig hard drive would suffice. Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid? Bad idea IMHO. I'd suggest having a look at http://www.soekris.com/ (net4501 for easiest requirements, better 4801, all in one extendable box) or if you need just basic 586cpu-power without extendability and only (well designed) ethernet ports see: http://www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm You can use any type of PC as terminal to operate these boxes vi the serial interface. Perhaps you already have any old vt100 terminal handy. But I don''t have an answer to your original question, sorry. Although I'd like to mention that old laptops often can't handle modern PC-CARDSs (CARDBUS), PCMCIA was 5v and 16 bit wide, very slow and really not sutable for routing purposes! I used to have a spare 486/dx4-100 laptop that I would use ONLY when I had to take my main machine off the grid here at home. It had the exact same ipaddr/settings as the main router/NAT machine did and it worked well. It was an old Toshiba that didn't even have a CDROM. It was that old. The thing about it was that it was brand new !! Nobody wanted to use it at my friends work so the IT guy just gave it to me. So I refer to it as my brand-new-low-mileage-1962-Ford-Falcon-laptop I would of course never have it on the net at the same time but kept the CAT5 cables just barely unsnapped at their points of entry to the network (DSL router and switch) so it would only take the time to boot it and snap in the CAT5's to be routing again. -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!
At Sat, 30 Oct 2004 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: This sounds to me as if you're simply using a display which isn't running at least 24bit colour depth. All that's happening is that Mozilla is installing its own colour map in the X server -- so when you move your mouse pointer into or out of the Mozilla window, your whole display switches from the default colour map to the Mozilla colour map or back again. ie. it's not a bug. It's a feature of your graphics setup. Cheers, Matthew Thanks Matthew, I will go in and do some edits to my XF86Config file after backing it up. (question) It's an integrated SiS, 32mb video chipset and I was also wondering the command that best works like lspci -v on other Unix variants. I wanted to get a more accurate output if the video cards attributes as the FreeBSD operating sees it. I did also try Netscape7 and it did the same thing. Only two current browser perform normally without any changes and those are: Opera and Konqueror Thanks. -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!
Hello, I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is actually working fine except when I use Mozilla as installed from ports. The whole background turns into a negative and so does the Mozilla browser. All returns to normal once I exit Mozilla. I have only seen this before with Solaris using Netscape. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: photoshop
At Mon, 25 Oct 2004 it looks like Gert Cuykens composed: What is the best aplication on freebsd for editing pictures ? GIMP -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!
At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:57:59AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: ... I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is actually working fine except when I use Mozilla as installed from ports. The whole background turns into a negative and so does the Mozilla browser. All returns to normal once I exit Mozilla. ... since nobody else replied... my 2 cents: maybe your X is running with too few colours? is it changing the colours when you change the focus? Thanks for your reply, What happens is all is fine with Opera, and Konqueror web browsers but once I start Mozilla, all hell breaks loose... It's like looking at a negative of a picture, whites turn black and the reversal of all colors, I can't describe to you the color changes for I was never aware of how much whole desktop can change. I mean EVERYTHING including the toolbars etc. I may go and install 4.10 and see what happens. 4.10 failed to install when the installation kernel hit the parallel port... Install/Kernel just wedged shut. -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: photoshop
At Mon, 25 Oct 2004 it looks like Gert Cuykens composed: What is the best aplication on freebsd for editing pictures ? (A) cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp (B) make install -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors
At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:57:59AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: ... I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is actually working fine except when I use Mozilla as installed from ports. The whole background turns into a negative and so does the Mozilla browser. All returns to normal once I exit Mozilla. ... since nobody else replied... my 2 cents: maybe your X is running with too few colours? is it changing the colours when you change the focus? Thanks for your reply, What happens is all is fine with Opera, and Konqueror web browsers but once I start Mozilla, all hell breaks loose... It's like looking at a negative of a picture, whites turn black and the reversal of all colors, I can't describe to you the color changes for I was never aware of how much whole desktop can change. I mean EVERYTHING including the toolbars etc. I may go and install 4.10 and see what happens. 4.10 failed to install when the installation kernel hit the parallel port... Install/Kernel just wedged shut. -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!
At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like epilogue composed: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:57:59AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: ... I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is actually working fine except when I use Mozilla as installed from ports. The whole background turns into a negative and so does the Mozilla browser. All returns to normal once I exit Mozilla. I may go and install 4.10 and see what happens. 4.10 failed to install when the installation kernel hit the parallel port... Install/Kernel just wedged shut. have you considered installing moz via packages? Hmm, actually no. I was always feeling pretty safe using the ports system. Aren't they the same packages? -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to view .ascii file?
Hmm, Would using the command: zcat filename work? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First time CUPS user, config problems?
At Sat, 17 Jul 2004 it looks like Peter Risdon composed: Cups installs /usr/local/bin/lp and /usr/local/bin/lpr and leaves /usr/bin/lp and /usr/bin/lpr in place. Back these up, symlink the cups versions into their places and try again. If I'm not mistaken, cups does install lpr and lprm and lpq . but I believe they have the following names lpr.cups lprm.cups lpq.cups In the past I've renamed the original files that were there already: mv lpr lpr-ORIG mv lprm lprm-ORIG mv lpq lpq-ORIG Then I create the symlinks so any programs looking for the original names, and alot do, find the cups version through the re-direction that occurs via symlinks. ln -s lpr.cups lpr ln -s lprm.cups lprm ln -s lpq.cups lpq Of course this is done inside the directory where the files reside. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v http://billschoolcraft.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First time CUPS user, config problems?
At Sat, 17 Jul 2004 it looks like Peter Risdon composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sat, 17 Jul 2004 it looks like Peter Risdon composed: Cups installs /usr/local/bin/lp and /usr/local/bin/lpr and leaves /usr/bin/lp and /usr/bin/lpr in place. Back these up, symlink the cups versions into their places and try again. If I'm not mistaken, cups does install lpr and lprm and lpq . but I believe they have the following names lpr.cups lprm.cups lpq.cups Not on my system: Your correct, this was on another Unix box I'm using, sorry. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v http://billschoolcraft.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
